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13-letter words containing b, r, u, s

  • business card — A person's business card or their card is a small card which they give to other people, and which has their name and details of their job and company printed on it.
  • business park — an area specially designated and landscaped to accommodate business offices, warehouses, light industry, etc
  • business trip — a journey made somewhere and back again for business purposes in one's working capacity
  • bustard quail — button quail.
  • bustard-quail — any of several birds of the family Turnicidae, of warmer parts of the Old World, resembling but not related to the true quail. Also called bustard quail, hemipode.
  • buster collar — a round collar, similar to a lampshade in shape, that is fitted round the neck of an animal or bird, for example to prevent it removing or interfering with a dressing or other treatment
  • busto arsizio — a city in Lombardy, N Italy.
  • butcher's boy — a boy doing deliveries for a butcher and perhaps also learning the butchery trade, esp in the past
  • butcher's saw — a type of hacksaw used especially by butchers for cutting through meat and bones.
  • butler's tray — a tray resting on or attached to an X-shaped, often folding stand, on which are kept drink bottles and glasses
  • butter muslin — a fine loosely woven cotton material originally used for wrapping butter
  • butterfingers — a person who drops things inadvertently or fails to catch things
  • butterflyfish — any small tropical marine percoid fish of the genera Chaetodon, Chelmon, etc, that has a deep flattened brightly coloured or strikingly marked body and brushlike teeth: family Chaetodontidae
  • buttress root — a tree root that extends above ground as a platelike outgrowth of the trunk supporting the tree. Buttress roots are mainly found in trees of tropical rain forests
  • buzzard's bay — an inlet of the Atlantic, in SE Massachusetts. 30 miles (48 km) long.
  • by its nature — If you say that something has a particular characteristic by its nature or by its very nature, you mean that things of that type always have that characteristic.
  • by yourselves — if you are by yourselves, or all by yourselves, you are alone
  • cabin cruiser — A cabin cruiser is a motor boat which has a cabin for people to live or sleep in.
  • carbon tissue — a sheet of paper coated with pigmented gelatine, used in the carbon process
  • carbon-tissue — paper faced with a preparation of carbon or other material, used between two sheets of plain paper in order to reproduce on the lower sheet that which is written or typed on the upper.
  • carboniferous — yielding coal or carbon
  • casual labour — people who are employed on a temporary, rather than a permanent or regular basis
  • cause celebre — A cause célèbre is an issue, person, or criminal trial that has attracted a lot of public attention and discussion.
  • chamber music — Chamber music is classical music written for a small number of instruments.
  • cheeseburgers — Plural form of cheeseburger.
  • circumambages — round-about methods
  • circumscribed — to draw a line around; encircle: to circumscribe a city on a map.
  • circumscribes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of circumscribe.
  • clair-obscure — chiaroscuro.
  • clare-obscure — chiaroscuro.
  • claustrophobe — a person who suffers from claustrophobia.
  • clothes brush — a brush used to remove dust, fluff, dirt, etc from clothes
  • coachbuilders — Plural form of coachbuilder.
  • cobaltiferous — containing cobalt
  • commeasurable — having the same measure or extent; commensurate.
  • commensurable — having a common factor
  • commensurably — In a commensurable manner; so as to be commensurable.
  • constructible — to build or form by putting together parts; frame; devise.
  • contributions — Plural form of contribution.
  • core business — the business activity that is main source of a company's profits and success, usually the activity that the company was originally set up to carry out
  • core subjects — three foundation subjects (English, mathematics, and science) that are compulsory throughout each key stage in the National Curriculum
  • counterblasts — Plural form of counterblast.
  • country blues — acoustic folk blues with a guitar accompaniment
  • creosote bush — a shrub, Larrea (or Covillea) tridentata of the western US and Mexico, that has resinous leaves with an odour resembling creosote, and can live for many thousands of years: family Zygophyllaceae
  • cross-buttock — a wrestling throw in which the hips are used as a fulcrum to throw an opponent
  • crush barrier — a barrier erected to separate sections of large crowds in order to prevent crushing
  • cubic measure — a system of units for the measurement of volumes, based on the cubic inch, the cubic centimetre, etc
  • customer base — A business's customer base is all its regular customers, considered as a group.
  • cybersecurity — the state of being safe from electronic crime and the measures taken to achieve this
  • cybersquatter — the registration of a commercially valuable Internet domain name, as a trademark, with the intention of selling it or profiting from its use.
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